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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 7. 191B. 1,31 1 ,609. Patented July 29, 1919.

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WILLIAM J. MOMILLAN WILLIAM J. MOMILLAN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOX-PARTITION-ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1919.

Application filed October 7, 1918. Serial No. 257,205.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. MOMIL- LAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Box-Partition-Assembling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of m invention is to. provide automatic'means or assembling the members of a partition structure whereby the interior of a box or carton (hereinafter, for convenience, termed a box) is divided into sefparate cells, each for the reception of one 0 the articles for whose storage or transportation the box is intended.

This object I attain in the manner hereinafter setforth, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a box with the partition structure therein in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the partition. structure detached from the box I Fig. 4., is a longitudinal section of a machine made in accordance with my invention for assembling the members of Sand partition structure,.and

Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5-5, Fig. 4.

In Figs. 1- and 2 of the drawing, 1 represents a box having a partition structure made in accordance with my invention, and com rising a longitudinal member 3 extending om end to end of the box, and aseries of transverse members 4, each extending from side to side of the box, said partition members overla ping or interlocking with one another an being, each provided, in its interlocking portion, with a slot -6, the slots of the partition member 3 extending inwardly from the top of the same and the slot of each of the partition members-4 extending upwardly from the bottom, each of the slots of the member 3 receiving the unslotted portion of one of the members 4 and the slots 6 of the latter receiving the corresponding unslotted portions of the member 3, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

The machine shown in Figs. 4 and 5 for automatically assembling the members 3 and 4: of the partition structure com rises two vertical reservoirs 8 and 9, the ormer receiving' the members 3 which are disposed flatwise one above another therein. The reservoir 9 has as many compartments as there are members 4 in-each partition structure, said members being disposed edge to edge one above another in each compartment, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to be delivered one at a time, through a slotted guide 10 below the reservoir 9, onto a platform 11 below said guide.

The upper runs of a series of endless belts 12, disposed between the guide 10 and platform 11, receive from the reservoir 8, one at a time, the members 3 of the partition structure, so as to feed each of said members forwardly toward the series of members l as the latter drop from the reservoir 8 onto the platform 11. After each member 3 has been interlocked with the corresponding set of members 4. the assembled partition structure is carried forwardly beyond the line of the reservoir 9 so that it can be removed from the belts 12 and deposited in the box.

If desired, reciprocating slides may be substituted for the endless belts 12 without departure from the spirit ofmy invention.

I claim:

1.The combination, in a machine of the character described, of reservoirs for the members of the partition structure, one of said reservoirs having a series of compartments in each of which the members are disposed edgewise, one above another, the other reservoir having the members disposed flatwise one above another therein, and a conveyer for receiving the latter members in succession from their reservoir and feeding them into engagement with the other members as the latter are delivered. from their reservoir.

2. The combination, in a machine of the character described, of a reservoir in which members are disposed edge to edge, one above another, a supporting platform for said members below each reservoir, a slotted guide for the members in their passage from the reservoir to said platform, a reservoir in which other members are dis osed flatwise, and a conveyer whereby sai latter members will be removed one at a time from their reservoir and carried to and interlocked with the first-named members.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

. WILIAM J. MCMILLAN. 

